Cabinet for meat and other food products.



W. P. MICHEL.

CABINET FOR MEAT AND OTHER FOODPRODUGTS. APPLICATION FILED DEO.17, 1913.

1,1 32,022, Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

WILLIAM P. MICHEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CABINET FOR MEAT AND OTHER FOOD PRODUCTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

I Application filed December 17, 1913. Serial No. 807,178.

To all whom it may concern ,Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. MICHEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cabinets for Meat and other Food Products, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a cabinet more particularly designed for butchers and other retailers of food products, which permits the goods to be neatly stored and readily displayed, while at all times subjecting them to a refrigerating temperature.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a vertical cross section of a cabinet embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a horizontal section showing a pair of drawers in plan; 'Fig. 3 a front view of the drawer-sustaining frame, and Fig. 4 a perspective view of one of the drawers.

The cabinet consists essentially of a box 10, having a top lid 11 hinged at 12, and hollow walls that are charged with a nonconducting filling 13 as usual with ice boxes. Within box 10, there is mounted a frame or insert 14 which is fitted against the back of the box, and is of such a de th only, that a considerable clearance or display compartment 15 remains between the front wall of the box and the front of the frame. The frame is provided along both of its sides with a number of rails 16 upon which are free to slide a plurality of superposed drawers 17, which when pulled out will be accommodated within the display compartment 15. Each drawer is provided with a wire screen bottom 18, a pair of handles 19, and a frame 20, adapted for the reception of a card, upon which the name of the goods contained within the drawer is displayed, the card being readily removable so that different cards may be inserted at different seasons. In addition to an article of food, each drawer is charged with a quantity of cracked ice, the cold water drippings descending from drawer to drawer, upon the bottom of box 10, from whence they are removed by a drain 21. These cold water drippings will serve to materially assist the ice in cooling the air within the drawers, as well as in the display compartment 15, so that, as any one drawer is pulled out for inspection by a prospective purchaser, or for the removal of its charge, the latter will be retained within a cool and pure atmosphere.

Means are provided within compartment 15 for checking the advance of the drawers so that they. cannot, under ordinary conditions be pulled out altogether. These means consist of a pair of abutments 22 made preferably of T bars, and projecting with their web into compartment 15 across the path of the drawers. Each bar is secured in position by means of two pairs of cleats or eepers 23, fastened to the corresponding side of the compartment and embracing the top end and foot of the bar, the cleats being accommodated within the clearance formed at the sides of the drawers. By this construction, the bars may be readily withdrawn from time to time, and permit the drawers to be entirely pulled out and removed for cleaning, repairing or airing purposes.

It will be seen that by my invention the various food products contained within the cabinet are properly segregated, that they may be neatly displayed to the customers, and that while being displayed they are not liable to be injuriously affected by a sudden rise in temperature.

Whenever necessary, frame 14 is lifted out of the box, so that the frame and drawers, as well as box 10 are freely accessible and may be subjected to a thorough cleanmg.

I claim:

1. A cabinet of the character. described comprising a refrigerating box, an upright insert removably fitted within the rear portion of the box and of a depth to leave a display compartment in front of said insert, the box being provided with an opening at the top of the display compartment, a lid for closing said opening, a series of rails extending inwardly from the sides of the insert, a series of meat and ice receiving drawers having cribrate bottoms and engaging said rails, said drawers being adapted to be partly projected into the display Q I a 1,132,022

com artment, and a drain at the bottomof. the frame, keepers secured to the sides of the x. the box in advanceof the frame, and T 2. A cabmet of the character descrlbed, bars removably en agin said kee rs. comprisin a box, a frame mounted there- Wli P. MI HEL. 5' in, and 0 less depth than the box, so as Witnesses:

to form a clearance between the frame and DANIEL HOLMGREN,

- the box-front, drawers slidablymounted in FRANK v. Bnrrsnn- 

